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| 8982190401 | caravels | Slender, long-hulled vessels utilized by Portuguese highly maneuverable and able to sail against the wind key to development of Portuguese trade empire in Asia | 0 | |
| 8982254152 | Asian sea trading network | Prior to intervention of Europeans, consisted of three zones Arab zone based on glass, carpets, and tapestries India zone based on cotton textiles China zone based on paper, porcelain, and silks | 1 | |
| 8982272554 | mercantilists | Economic thinkers who argued that a ruler's and kingdom's power depended on the amount of precious metals they controlled. This led to an emphasis on using manufactured goods rather than gold or silver in commercial exchanges with other nations or empires. | 2 | |
| 8982291232 | Ormuz | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located at southern end of Persian Gulf site for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network | 3 | |
| 8982301192 | Goa | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on western India coast site for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network | 4 | |
| 8982327086 | factories | European trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce | 5 | |
| 8982358137 | Batavia | Dutch fortress located after 1620 on the island of Java | 6 | |
| 8982358138 | Dutch trading empire | The Dutch system extending into Asia with fortified towns and factories, warships on patrol, and monopoly control of limited number of products | 7 | |
| 8982380859 | Luzon | Northern island of Philippines conquered by Spain during the 1560s site of major Catholic missionary effort | 8 | |
| 8982413828 | Mindanao | Southern island of Philippines a Muslim kingdom that was able to successfully resist Spanish conquest | 9 | |
| 8982428989 | Xavier, Francis | Spanish jesuit missionary worked in India in 1540s among the outcate and lower caste groups made little headway among elites | 10 | |
| 8982457603 | Nobili, Robert di (1577-1656) | Italian Jesuit missionary worked in India during the early 1600s introduced strategy to convert elites first strategy later widely adopted by Jesuits in various parts of Asia mission eventually failed | 11 | |
| 8986062622 | Hongwu | First Ming emperor in 1368 originally of peasant lineage original name Zhu Yuanzhang drove out Mongol influence restored position of scholar-gentry | 12 | |
| 8986106302 | Macao | One of the two ports in which the Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming Dynasty | 13 | |
| 8986713816 | Canton | One of the two port cities in which Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming dynasty | 14 | |
| 8986723656 | Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610) | Along with Adam Schall, Jesuit scholar in court of Ming emperors skilled scientist won few converts to Christianity | 15 | |
| 8986732917 | Schall, Adam (1591-1666) | Along with Matteo Ricci, Jesuit scholar in court of Ming emperors skilled scientist won few converts to Christianity | 16 | |
| 8988419208 | Chongzhen | Last of the Ming emperors committed suicide in 1644 in the face of a Jurchen capture of the Forbidden City at Beijing | 17 | |
| 8988445098 | Nobunaga, Oda (1534-1582) | Japanese daimyo first to make extensive use of firearms in 1573 deposed last of Ashikaga shoguns unified much of central Honshu under his command | 18 | |
| 8988478910 | Hideyoshi, Toyotomi | General under Nobunaga succeeded as leading military power in central Japan continued efforts to break power of daimyos constructed a series of alliances that made him military master of Japan in 1590 died in 1598 | 19 | |
| 8988494711 | Ieyasu, Tokugawa | Vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi succeeded him as most powerful military figure in Japan granted title of shogun in 1603 and established Tokugawa shogunate established political unity in Japan | 20 | |
| 8988504324 | Edo | Tokugawa capital city modern-day Tokyo center of the Tokugawa shogunate | 21 | |
| 8988512654 | Deshima | Island in Nagasaki Bay only port open to non-Japanese after closure of the islands in the 1640s only Chinese and Dutch ships were permitted to enter | 22 | |
| 8988524194 | School of National Learning | New ideology that laid emphasis on Japan's unique historical experience and the revival of indigenous culture at the expense of Chinese imports such as Confucianism typical of Japan in 18th century | 23 |
